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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!cmcl2!psinntp!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Some ideas on the driver interface (New idea!) Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 01:14:26 GMT Message-ID: <C428s4.Gz3@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <1nj0ej$j6s@walt.ee.pdx.edu> <C3p9M9.72J@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Mar17.122612.5929@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Lines: 13 This is the standard "/dev" magic filesystem, with the addition of a second name space to be interpreted by the kernel. The special file system idea is a good one, long term. Adding a second name space is a bad idea (look at System V IPC for an example... they added a standard routine for creating a unique ID from a file name, eventually, as it became obvious that IPC names should have been in the file system to begin with). -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.